Migrating Your Homebrew Setup to a New Mac with One Command

8th November 2025

Easily migrate your entire Homebrew setup to a new Mac with just one simple command. This step-by-step guide shows you how to back up and restore all your Homebrew packages, apps, and developer tools using a Brewfile - saving you hours of manual reinstalls and setup time when moving to a new machine.


Setting up global variables in the REST Client VS Code extension

19th Mar 2023

REST Client is a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension that allows you to send HTTP requests and view the responses directly in VS Code. In the past, my go-to application for testing my REST API endpoints was Postman. Postman has many advanced features that cannot be completely replaced with the REST Client extension. However, since you need to switch between two different apps (VS Code and Postman), I find REST Client to be more convenient 90% of the time I test my endpoints. In this brief blog article, I will explain how to set up global variables that can be reused in different environments within the REST Client extension.